Mark connectors as stable

.chloggen/connectors-stable.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. otlpreceiver)
+component: connector
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Mark 'service.connectors' featuregate as stable
+
+# One or more tracking issues or pull requests related to the change
+issues: [2336]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:

otelcol/internal/sharedgate/sharedgate.go

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import "go.opentelemetry.io/collector/featuregate"
 
 var ConnectorsFeatureGate = featuregate.GlobalRegistry().MustRegister(
 	"service.connectors",
-	featuregate.StageBeta,
+	featuregate.StageStable,
 	featuregate.WithRegisterDescription("Enables 'connectors', a new type of component for transmitting signals between pipelines."),
-	featuregate.WithRegisterReferenceURL("https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/2336"))
+	featuregate.WithRegisterReferenceURL("https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/2336"),
+	featuregate.WithRegisterToVersion("v0.78.0"))